Website: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en Conditions: Europeana is the digital platform for European cultural heritage. Many of the images have no use restrictions on them and are free to use for any purpose. To search for these, tick the Free Re-use box on the left side of the search filters. The re-use conditions for free may be affected … Continue reading Europeana Collections

Website: http://images.rmg.co.uk/en/page/show_home_page.html Conditions: Getting images free from the NMM requires fulfilling certain conditions. They give a 100% academic discount for runs below 1000 editions, as below. 'Discounts on reproduction fees are available for images used on interior pages of scholarly and not-for-profit publications, see the table below. This discount does not include supply fees. A minimum … Continue reading National Maritime Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich

Website: http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/ Collection: The Lewis Walpole Library Digital Images Collection (commonly referred to as the "DL") presents images of visual materials from Library's collection. The majority of the Library's world-renowned collection of English caricatures and political satirical prints from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries are presented in the Digital Image Collection, including works by … Continue reading The Lewis Walpole Library

Website: https://socrates.leidenuniv.nl/R/?func=search-simple&local_base=gen01-disc Conditions: The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) has brought in more than 2,400 photos to Wikipedia. Leiden University Libraries (UBL), which manages this photo collection, has made this donation possible together with the Working Group on Special Scientific Libraries (WSWB). Imports of these images in Wikimedia Commons (the "Image … Continue reading University of Leiden / Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

Website: http://emuseumplus.lsh.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=literature&moduleFunction=search&lang=en Collection: Here you can search in the Royal Armoury, Skokloster Castle and Hallwyl museum collection online database. You can find information on museum collections, images of objects and museum environments and the people who have made, owned and used the objects. These include paintings, weapons, furniture and costumes but also the accounts, books and … Continue reading Livrustkammaren / The Swedish Armoury

Website: http://worldimages.sjsu.edu Conditions: You are free to use these images for non-profit educational purposes, but we ask that you give credit to the copyright holders who retain rights to the images. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License. You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format … Continue reading WorldImages / California State University IMAGE Project

Website: https://pixabay.com Conditions: On Pixabay you may find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 as public domain. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission and without paying attribution. However, depicted content may still be protected by trademarks, publicity or privacy … Continue reading Pixabay

Website: full collections - http://digitalcollections.nypl.org Public domain images - http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?utf8=✓&keywords=&filters[rights][]=pd Conditions: Some free, some with minimal charge for publication Even though we believe the images we have uploaded to The Commons on Flickr are in the "public domain" and thus not subject to copyright restrictions, these photos may be subject to other third party rights, such as … Continue reading New York Public Library Public Domain Images

Website: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons Conditions: A range of access permissions as below. May be hard to find a specific image but is a huge and ever updating source. Attribution means: You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit. Noncommercialmeans: You let … Continue reading Flickr, Creative Commons Licensed Images

Website: Main site - http://search.getty.edu/gateway/landing Open-Content Images - http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&cat=highlight&f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&rows=10&srt=a&dir=s&pg=1 Conditions: The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required. Open content images can be used for any purpose without first seeking permission … Continue reading The Getty / J. Paul Getty Museum / Getty Research Institute

Website: http://gigi.mwa.org Conditions: 1 - Digital: The Society makes available, without charge, all of our existing medium resolution (up to 72 dpi) digital images that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose under the terms of a Creative Commons License. No permission is required.* 2 - Print: To request a high-resolution image (maximum 240 dpi … Continue reading The American Antiquarian Society

Website: http://www.romansociety.org/imago/home.html Conditions: Photos are donated and available to use and share for educational and research purposes only, and downloadable images can be quickly saved or copied into presentation software such as PowerPoint. Source: http://www.romansociety.org/imago/about-imago.html (via @TheRomanSoc)

Website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ Conditions: The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons offer access to millions of public domain images, which we encourage you to explore and re-use. Source: https://www.flickr.com/people/britishlibrary/ (via @kylenano)

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Every academic author knows the pain of getting the image permissions for their articles, books and other publications. It takes a huge amount of time, money and frustration. However, many institutions will allow free reproduction of images of their collections for academic and scholarly publications if they fulfil certain criteria, depending on the institution.
This site lists those generous institutions and their conditions. Please send an email or contact me on Twitter/Instagram @fourredshoes if you know of more to add.
Please note: there are no images reproduced on this site as it makes it harder to scroll through and adds data usage. Please use the links in each entry to search for images.